Attract attention and make new friends with the WiFi Detector T-Shirt

By Mark Kaelin

ThinkGeek is offering the WiFi Detector T-Shirt just in time for holiday shopping. If you have any tech geeks on your list, this shirt is almost a must buy. The WiFi Detector T-Shirt will find broadcasting WiFi signals and notify you by flashing indicator lights across your chest. Never be without a WiFi connection again. We took the shirt for a test drive recently to one of our favorite lunch destinations.

WiFi Detector T-Shirt

The packaging is pretty un-extraordinary.

Simple packaging

An ordinary T-Shirt

The detector

Battery pack pocket

Battery pack

Three AAA batteries required

Ready to go

Detector Removed

The WiFi detecting part of the shirt can be removed for washing purposes.

Connector

The detector is just a thin piece of plastic.

Shirt connector

The connector on the shirt goes directly to the battery pack.

We have WiFi

Strong signal

Here I am standing under one of our Wireless router/switches -- the signal is strong here.

Outside

There is still a WiFi signal in the TechRepublic parking lot, but it is hard to see whether the detector is blinking. Sunlight just overwhelms the shirt making detecting under such circumstances nearly impossible.

Shalimar

The Shalimar Indian Restaurant is one of our favorite lunch destinations.

Confirmed

Yep! There is a strong WiFi signal here.

Shalimar&apos;s WiFi statement

Buffet here I come

Hmmm

The lunch buffet at Shalimar is slightly different every day.

Time to eat

As I am getting ready to chow down, the WiFi detector blinks.

What does that shirt do

The shirt will attract attention. This is the third Indian waiter to ask me what my shirt was doing.I got the feeling that they were concerned that the shirt might be attacking their network or something. When I told them what it was doing I got that "Crazy Americans," look.

Detector Removed

The WiFi detecting part of the shirt can be removed for washing purposes.

About Mark Kaelin

Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years. Most recently, he has been a regular contributor to BreakingModern.com, aNewDomain.net, and TechRepublic.

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Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years. Most recently, he has been a regular contributor to BreakingModern.com, aNewDomain.net, and TechRepublic.